Sometimes I lose track, but my inner editor tells me I ought to do a better job of compiling some of my recent writings. So here I’ll post links to works published in various place—my KC Studio columns, Substack eruptions, etc.

Art and History at UMKC: A couple of days last summer, I dropped in to view the work of two Spanish art conservators who were touching up and preserving a major, but little-known art work on the walls of a UMKC building. I’ve written about these murals before; they’re the work of a Spanish artist with connections to both Ernest Hemingway and to the current director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Like so:

https://kcstudio.org/a-rare-and-powerful-artwork-puts-on-a-new-face-at-umkc/

Conservators at work on “Don Quixote in the Modern World”

Two Dudes and Bob Dylan: After a summer encounter with Robyn Hitchcock, I read his recent memoir about the year 1967, which we happened to share as a notable period in our respective teen-aged musical awakenings. My review (of sorts), originally posted on substack: https://substack.com/home/post/p-177798282